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...evaluations that would help these aspiring academics develop their teaching careers. If Harvard is to expect, as we firmly believe it should, its tenure-track faculty to be as proficient in the classroom as they are in the library or the laboratory, it must cultivate the teaching skills of academia??s future teachers. But instilling this sort of cultural shift in what Harvard values in its faculty—that they must demonstrate competence in the classroom in order to be hired—requires a prior commitment to evaluating teaching...
...year-and-a-half as President Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary, quickly became known for a “Washington-style” attitude toward the media.It was that style, some say, that contributed to his increasing alienation from the Faculty and his ultimate downfall this semester. ACADEMIA??S PHOTO-OPAndrew D. Gordon ’74, the chair of the History department, tells a story about the first time he had “a sense of real concern about what is going on with this administration.” That point came...
...gift to promote better understanding of Islam as “blithe and childish,” saying, “If Harvard shares the Prince’s vision, then the House of Saud, the Iranian ayatollahs, and Moslem extremists of all stripes can breathe easily, knowing that academia??s strict definition of understanding precludes any sort of critical evaluation or the issuing of any value judgments” (Feb. 6). The Salient’s conclusion is that indeed the Islamic studies gift will further the cause of Islamic extremism by supporting scholarship which, for sake...
...That’s not enough. So much of Harvard is about image, about the projection of academia??can a hockey coach who once showed up on ‘The Price Is Right’ in whitewashed jeans slip seamlessly into the stodgy ranks of Mass. Hall...
...Perhaps what’s most disconcerting about all of this, however, is not the impact these new terms are having on everyday life or mainstream academia??for most people, overtly or quietly, recognize the gay rights movement’s latter-day silliness...